No. 24A84

Troy L. Fields v. Colorado

Lower Court: Colorado
Docketed: 2024-07-26
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Experienced Counsel
Tags: criminal-episodes habitual-offender jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments required a jury to find that Mr. Fields's prior convictions were separately brought and tried and arose out of separate and distinct criminal episodes before his sentence could be enhanced under Colorado's habitual-criminal statute, in light of this Court's decision in Erlinger v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 1840 (2024).

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury, rather than a judge, to determine whether a defendant's prior convictions arose from separate criminal episodes for purposes of imposing a habitual offender sentence enhancement

Docket Entries

2024-07-29
Application (24A84) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until September 3, 2024.
2024-07-24
Application (24A84) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 4, 2024 to October 3, 2024, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.

Attorneys

Troy Fields
Tobias Samuel Loss-EatonSidley Austin LLP, Petitioner